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Tag Archives: Croydon Clocktower
Cancer Help Centre art works go on display at Clocktower
Art is one of the many therapies offered at the South East Cancer Help Centre in Purley, and an exhibition of some of the work produced has just opened at the café in the Croydon Clocktower. “These two large panels … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon Clocktower, Purley, South East Cancer Help Centre
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Kenley Revival sees Spitfire flying into David Lean Cinema
Over the past 80 years, the sound of a Merlin engine, humming above Croydon and the rest southern England, has become a reassuring fixture of the summer. In more recent, more benign times, thanking that well-engineered purring sound, and the … Continue reading
Elton and The Beatles have David Lean on song this summer
There was a time, at the height of Hollywood, when music biopics were about long-dead stars, the likes of band leader Glenn Miller and Yankee Doodle Dandy George M Cohan, when the studios could take massive liberties with reality in … Continue reading
Amazing Aretha will have them weeping in the cinema aisles
When a movie reviewer states, “Don’t bother with tissues. Bring a towel”, it ought to be clear that they have had an emotional experience at the cinema. Aretha Franklin, who died last year, regularly had that effect on people, and … Continue reading
BAFTA Fellow Samuelson to attend David Lean screening
One of the most renowned figures associated with British film-making – Sir Sydney Samuelson – is coming to the David Lean Cinema next Tuesday, to introduce a screening of a recently restored film that his father produced in 1923. A … Continue reading
Cinema campaign group raised £500 with free screenings
Two free screenings over the Christmas period at the Croydon Clocktower’s arthouse movie theatre, the David Lean Cinema, where those attending were encouraged to give their entry price over for charity, raised more than £500 for two local good causes. … Continue reading
Black Women, Parliament & Power, Clocktower, Dec 12
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Tagged Braithwaite Hall, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Cycle Theatre
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David Lean Cinema is cutting its ticket prices from January
Croydon commuters’ rail fares might be going up in January, but cinema-goers’ booking fees are being cut. At least, movie-goers at the David Lean Cinema in the Clocktower on Katharine Street will be getting cheaper tickets for screenings from January … Continue reading
Clocktower exhibition has broad brush approach to local talent
The Croydon Art Society was recently named national arts club of the year. KEN TOWL went along to their annual exhibition at the Clocktower and found out why There is a portrait in the Croydon Art Society’s exhibition that looks … Continue reading
Cancer Help Centre’s art works go on display at Clocktower
The Mayor of Croydon, Bernadette Khan, this week opened an exhibition at the Croydon Clocktower which showcases some of the work members of the South East Cancer Help Centre (SECHC) have created. The pictures on show use various media including … Continue reading
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Tagged Croydon Clocktower, Purley, SECHC, South East Cancer Help Centre
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Come to Croydon’s cabaret: 5 Spectacular tickets for price of 4
Inside Croydon readers who want to help to celebrate CODA’s big birthday party next week can now do so with a really Spectacular money-saving offer. CODA – the Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association – is marking its 75th anniversary year … Continue reading
Posted in Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre
Tagged Braithwaite Hall, CODA, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association
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We are many, they are few, and battles still to be won
The David Lean Cinema is finishing 2018 with a flourish, with a selection of screenings through to the end of the year and into 2019, which are certain to ensure that the arthouse movie auditorium in the Croydon Clocktower will … Continue reading
Cinema offers rocket-fuelled movies that reach for the stars
OWEN HETHERSAY previews November’s films at the David Lean It’s no secret that the BBC’s Graham Norton Show long ago abandoned any pretence to being an old-school chat show, where the guests might offer anecdotes and talk about themselves, and … Continue reading
Actor Scanlan to talk in pitiless close-up about her latest part
One of the great achievements of the David Lean Cinema campaigners over the past five years or so has been their ability to organise events around their movie screenings in the Clocktower’s arthouse picture house, pulling in some fascinating and … Continue reading
Cinema backs Kenley history project with Battle of Britain film
As the Royal Air Force marks its centenary today with a spectacular fly-past over the capital, the David Lean Cinema volunteers and the people behind the Kenley history project are combining their efforts to mark one of the most heroic … Continue reading
In The Beginning exhibit, Croydon Clocktower, to Jun 29
In the Beginning, a new exhibition of images by Walter Conquy, is at the Clocktower Café Gallery until June 29. All the images have a basis in photography. Walter creates pictures from the overlooked, the taken for granted and the everyday, … Continue reading
Cinema shudders to silence that never sounded so terrifying
OWEN HETHERSAY previews next month’s screenings at the David Lean Next month’s programme of movies at the David Lean Cinema in the Croydon Clocktower offers a broad range for all tastes and interests, from the highly anticipated A Quiet Place, to … Continue reading
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Cinema campaign talks the talk with screening of Slits movie
The David Lean Cinema Campaign has always been about doing a bit more than simply screening films, and they have often staged some intriguing and fascinating discussions around movies, too. Especially if campaign co-founder Adrian Winchester happened to have a … Continue reading
Exhibition opens to celebrate 150 years of School of Art
An exhibition has opened at the Museum of Croydon in the Clocktower to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Croydon School of Art. The free exhibition is on display until April 14, and includes work from many of … Continue reading
Gujarati Yatra exhibition opens at Museum of Croydon Nov 14
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Tagged Croydon Clocktower, Museum of Croydon
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Bollywood comes to Croydon in celebration of Indian film
India has one of the world’s richest and most prolific film industries, and to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, Malti Patel of Apsara Arts is staging a “Filam India” programme at the David Lean Cinema in central Croydon. … Continue reading
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Tagged Apsara Arts, Croydon Clocktower, David Lean Cinema
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